American Naturalist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Naturalist is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse238
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations50
Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey40
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models37
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History34
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change34
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna34
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy32
Front and Back Matter30
Front and Back Matter27
Front and Back Matter25
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?24
Front and Back Matter24
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish23
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations22
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet21
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms21
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density21
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees21
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps20
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress20
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift19
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)19
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs19
Adaptive Evolution Can Both Prevent Ecosystem Collapse and Delay Ecosystem Recovery18
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness18
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites18
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish18
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice18
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies18
The Evolution of Resource Provisioning in Pollination Mutualisms18
A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence18
Front and Back Matter18
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds17
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes17
Correction17
Front and Back Matter17
Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition17
Front and Back Matter17
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Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard16
Front and Back Matter16
Integrating Infection Intensity into Within- and Between-Host Pathogen Dynamics: Implications for Invasion and Virulence Evolution15
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities15
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees15
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence15
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor15
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males15
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities15
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations15
Treasurer’s Report, 202014
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards14
Can Conflicting Selection from Pollinators and Nectar-Robbing Antagonists Drive Adaptive Pollen Limitation? A Conceptual Model and Empirical Test14
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors14
Pollinator and flower morphology interact to influence pollen receipt14
The Extension of Foundress Life Span and the Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera13
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere13
Sex allocation and reproductive success in a perennial hermaphroditic herb: both size and timing matter13
Physiological color change in the Neotropical tree frog (Pithecopus hypochondrialis) as a potential mechanism of nocturnal camouflage13
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish13
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits13
Social Behavior, Ovary Size, and Population of Origin Influence Cuticular Hydrocarbons in the Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma13
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network13
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog12
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization12
Seasonality in Kgalagadi Lizards: Inferences from Legacy Data12
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales12
Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments12
Corrigendum12
Front and Back Matter12
Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations12
Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence?12
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission11
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection11
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism11
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants11
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited11
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window11
The Evolution of Mate Attachment11
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories11
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird11
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist11
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes11
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes11
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers11
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks11
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution11
Bargain to Be Dominant10
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix10
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate10
Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution10
Host Energetics Explain Variation in Parasite Productivity across Hosts and Ecosystems10
Secretary’s Report, 202310
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders10
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities10
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory10
Raptor Perception of Mismatch in Seasonally Polyphenic Prey10
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community10
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees9
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates9
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods9
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains9
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere9
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish9
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects9
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations9
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)9
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly9
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster9
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists9
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator9
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster9
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms9
Front and Back Matter9
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes8
Front and Back Matter8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition8
The characteristics of inducible defenses influence predator-prey dynamics8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage8
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio8
A variance partitioning approach identifies the absence of mate choice and the lack of forced copulation in the water strider Gerris gracilicornis8
Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis8
The evolution of dependence and cohesion in incipient endosymbioses8
Front and Back Matter8
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming8
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales8
Front and Back Matter8
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss8
The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future8
Front and Back Matter8
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes8
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers8
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations8
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars8
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation7
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) Range Expansion7
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test7
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect7
Allee Effects and Coexistence7
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers7
Secretary’s Report, 20247
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution7
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review7
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change7
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity7
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting7
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga7
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense7
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes7
Analyzing Time-Energy Constraints to Understand the Links between Environmental Change and Local Extinctions in Terrestrial Ectotherms7
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates7
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics7
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent7
Front and Back Matter7
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons7
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists7
Front and Back Matter7
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation7
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds7
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales7
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change7
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms6
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships6
In Memoriam6
Front and Back Matter6
Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection6
Divergent Pathways of Nitrogen-Fixing Trees through Succession Depend on Starting Nitrogen Supply and Priority Effects6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution6
Context-Dependent Host-Symbiont Interactions: Shifts along the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum6
Learned Sex Discrimination and the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior6
Erratum6
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales6
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations6
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons6
Front and Back Matter6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog6
Correction6
Front and Back Matter6
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)6
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps6
Front and Back Matter6
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output6
Front and Back Matter6
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution6
Novel Genomic Insights into Body Size Evolution in Cetaceans and a Resolution of Peto’s Paradox6
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird6
Food Plant Shifts Drive the Diversification of Sack-Bearer Moths6
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations6
The Baldwin effect reloaded: Intermediate levels of phenotypic plasticity favor evolutionary rescue6
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling6
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma6
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits6
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients6
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment6
Front and Back Matter6
2025 Publication Awards6
Front and Back Matter6
Selection and Admixture in a Polytypic Aposematic Frog5
Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need5
Diversity-Dependent Diversification in the History of Marine Animals5
Inverse Lansing Effect: Maternal Age and Provisioning Affecting Daughters’ Longevity and Male Offspring Production5
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors5
Larval Density, Sex, and Allocation Hierarchy Affect Life History Trait Covariances in a Bean Beetle5
Within-Host Viral Growth and Immune Response Rates Predict Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Transmission Dynamics for African Buffalo5
Neotropical Birds Respond Innately to Unfamiliar Acoustic Signals5
Adaptation to a Viscous Snowball Earth Ocean as a Path to Complex Multicellularity5
A Quantitative Survey of Cogradient and Countergradient Variation in Nature5
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris)5
Natural Selection and the Evolution of Asynchronous Aging5
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality5
Coevolution of Patch Selection in Stochastic Environments5
The Effect of Predator Population Dynamics on Batesian Mimicry Complexes5
Positive association between female-biased sexual size dimorphism and male-skewed operational sex ratio in anurans5
Low Heritability but Significant Early Environmental Effects on Resting Metabolic Rate in a Wild Passerine5
Differential Survival and Background Selection in Cryptic Trunk-Dwelling Arthropods in Fire-Prone Environments5
Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya5
Brood Parasites That Care: Alternative Nesting Tactics in a Subsocial Wasp5
Nature, Data, and Power: How Hegemonies Shaped This Special Section5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits5
Thermal Plasticity in Behavioral Traits Mediates Mating and Reproductive Dynamics in an Ectotherm5
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks5
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators5
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat5
Disentangling Verbal Arguments: Intralocus Sexual Conflict in Haplodiploids5
Better Together: Offspring Benefit from Siblings in Both the Absence and the Presence of Parents5
Hybridization Outcomes Have Strong Genomic and Environmental Contingencies5
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities ofClarkiaSpecies: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement5
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